Limestone itself is quarried in many places as a building stone, for use in roads, and for use in reducing sulfur emissions from coal-burning power plants.
They were quarries, in a sense, but exceedingly bizarre quarries, in that the rock was meant to come to them.
Lyle lost to Quarry in a unanimous decision, but he continued to face leading heavyweights.
We were just about to leave a marble quarry in a taxi with a local tribesman who had shown us how the quarry had been reopened by the Taliban and was generating new income for them.
Across the quarry in a white trailer that doubled as the control room, the show's supervising producer, Anthony Carbone, watched the television monitors vigilantly, making sure he had enough material to stitch together a cliffhanger moment before a commercial break.
The skullcap had been found at a quarry in a pool of water — perhaps, he theorized, these conditions had preserved it, so that if he got to it soon, he'd be able to extract some DNA.
"Every Roman Polanski movie has a theme: corruption meeting innocence over water," he says in Marina Zenovich's 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," noting that Mr. Polanski had seduced his under-age quarry in a Jacuzzi.
The company owns a 13-acre quarry in a part of the Wyoming desert that 50 million years ago was a freshwater lake in a subtropical climate, said Doug Miller, one of the partners in the company.
Rather than head straight for their target, the falcons kept their quarry in a fixed position to one side, allowing them to close in on the prey in the stealthiest way possible.
He bags his quarry in a Ziploc, and hauls it back to his lab at Montana State University.
